North Korean Gulags Receive Less Than Stellar Reviews

On Google Maps, there are locations of several North Korean prison camps: Gulag 16, Gulag 22, and Chongjin Gulag. Very serious reviews are appearing on Google Plus, and many of them are hardly flattering. This must be worrying as North Korea is apparently opening new interment resorts. No doubt these reviews will hamper expansion plans.…

A Man Who Made Jason Brody (And Master Chief, And A Badass Nord)

Mathieu Aerni is a character artist at Blur Studio, they of amazing video game trailer fame He’s worked on trailers and cinematics for games such as Halo 4, Far Cry 3, The Elder Scrolls Online, Lord of the Rings: War in the North and Dishonored Over the years he’s also worked on a number of…

Kids Play Call Of Duty, Get Raided By Police

Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan (via The Local) is reporting that over the weekend, a group of kids playing Call of Duty got a little more than they bargained for when they got all excited about the game. When one of the teenagers was killed in a round, he jokingly fell to the ground and started screaming…

After 35 Years, Star Wars Action Figures Might Actually Be Growing Up

For such a massive series, the standard Star Wars action figures have never exactly set the world on fire. The originals had a range of movement last seen at the Nuremberg Rally, and subsequent ones haven’t improved much. For 2013, though—and perhaps spurred on by Star Wars‘ fresh ownership—Hasbro has pulled out all the stops,…

Sweet Mother Of Dragons, Get A Load Of King’s Landing Recreated In Minecraft

We’ve seen some amazing Game of Thrones stuff from the people at Westeroscraft in the past, but these latest shots of King’s Landing just may take the cake. Check ’em out: Good lord. You can practically smell the place. Those images come from Imgur via reddit and pretty much everyone on Twitter. You can find…

Now Kids Are Building Incredible Iron Man Costumes

Jackson lives in Billings, MT. He built this Iron Man costume from scratch. He’s 16 years old. While normally we’d simply applaud that and post some pics, a local film production crew have made this short documentary on Jackson and the suit, filling us in on how he made it and showing him giving a…

Weirdly, This is Probably A Behind-The-Scenes Video Of A Planned Prince Of Persia Reboot

Bizarrely, within the same 24-hour period that Ubisoft says the Prince of Persia series is “paused”, footage has emerged of a project that sure seems like a Prince of Persia reboot. You’ve seen it before, back in August, but this production video says that the project’s name is Osiris, adding to suspicions the game—whatever it…

One Of The World’s Greatest Actors Hated Working With George Lucas

Terence Stamp is one of our age’s great actors. The guy has been everyone from Dracula to General Zod, and been in everything from Young Guns to Halo 3 (he was the Prophet of Truth). One of his most notable roles in recent decades, though, was as Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars: Episode I.…

It’s Tough Feeling Bad About These Awesome Diablo III Figures

Diablo III statues too expensive? Build your own. That’s what Samo Kramberger has done, crafting three custom pieces based on Diablo III’s barbarian, monk and demon hunter. The detail on the barbarian’s outfit and accessories is amazing, even if his face is a little upsetting. The demon hunter and monk, though, are just about perfect.…

Xbox Live is green across the board. Resume your deathmatching and Netflixing.

Yep, It’s A Slingshot That Shoots Chainsaws

Sound like something that you’d only see in a video game? Well, thanks to the maniac YouTube weaponcrafter Joreg Sprave, it’s also something that exists in real life. Granted, it’s a javelin with a very small chainsaw on the end, but I don’t think that distinction would matter if you caught one of these suckers…

SimCity’s Expensive Version Is $80, But…

Normally, the deluxe edition of a game withholds a few things, but EA seem to be going all-out with SimCity, throwing so much extra junk at the more expensive version (it’s $20 more than the regular) that they’re basically saying “you are scum for buying the normal version and your friends will view you accordingly”.…

Xbox Live is currently down. Microsoft says they’re looking into the problem.

Forget Raiden. Play As Cyborg Ninja In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Instead.

Perhaps some of you still feel conflicted about Raiden after Metal Gear Solid 2. Maybe some of you just plain don’t want to play as Raiden again. Whatever it is, good news. You don’t have to play as Raiden if you pre-order Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance from GameStop. In that case, your pre-order bonus allows…

If you like music and also video games, you’ll like Kotaku Melodic. Kirk puts a lot of jazzy love into it.

Normal Clocks Are Stupid. This LEGO Contraption Knows What’s Up.

LEGO really are amazing little blocks, aren’t they? You can build insane contraptions out of bunches of them, including custom clocks. Custom clocks that actually work. Jason Allemann built this neat-looking clock that you see in the video above. It probably won’t be a replacement to whatever alarm-capable, and otherwise noise-free clock you’re currently using,…

Brian Reynolds, designer of Civilization II, has left Zynga, where he’d headed up development on FrontierVille

The Characters From The Cave, Now Available In Charming Toy Form

The characters are the highlight of Double Fine’s new adventure game The Cave. Seven wanderers, each with his or her own selfish journey to undertake (and lesson to learn), each drawn in the game’s groovy art style If you’re a fan of the game (like Tina came to be when she reviewed it), you might…

The Endless Possibilities Of The Best World-Map Music

No doubt about it: we all love video game world-maps. That moment when you first set foot into a game’s wide blue yonder and see just how far the horizon goes… it’s magic. While video game world-maps are often plenty beautiful-looking, it’s also important how beautiful they sound. We’ll often spend hours and hours exploring…

This Insane Torchlight II Mod Adds A New Class, New Regions, And More

Months after players have eked the last drop of content out of the vanilla version of Torchlight II, modders are still going strong, twisting, re-vamping, and moulding the game into whatever they please. But while there are many fine mods out there (more than I could hope to keep track of, really), the Synergies Mod…